Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 14:47:36 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS problems in -current Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981118144416.429D-100000@eccles.salk.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811180942150.21711-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Tom Bartol wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I've been seeing the following problem for a while now (since > > 3.0-19981006-BETA) but was too busy at the time to report it or help > > diagnose it further. Now I've got some time on my hands... > > > > I can fairly consistently wedge NFS writes to our server with the > > following: > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=ick bs=8192 count=1000 > > > > which tries to write an 8MB file to our file server which is an Auspex. I > > have mounted Auspex from my 3.0-current machine (cvsupped and built this > > morning) in NFSv3 mode. This command will wedge one or more of the nfsiod > > processes. "ps -auwx | grep nfsiod" reports the following: > > > > root 137 0.0 0.0 216 64 ?? I 9:12AM 0:02.31 nfsiod -n 4 > > root 138 0.0 0.0 216 64 ?? I 9:12AM 0:01.74 nfsiod -n 4 > > root 139 0.0 0.0 216 64 ?? D 9:12AM 0:00.27 nfsiod -n 4 > > root 140 0.0 0.0 216 64 ?? D 9:12AM 0:00.24 nfsiod -n 4 > > > > The two processes in state "D" are the wedged ones. A separate machine > > running -current from July 11 works fine. > > > > Eventually all the nfsiod's get wedged and I'm forced to reboot. NFS > > reads work fine. > > > > Is anyone else seeing similar behaviour? What can I do to try to fine > > tune a diagnosis and help solve the problem? > > > > Thanks for your help, > > The best place to start is to get a tcpdump of the set of transactions > which wedged the iod. > > -- I just had another nfsiod wedge in state "nfsrcv" while using Netscape. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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